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John Chan — 15 Patents

BSBallard Power Systems: 5 patents #39 of 467Top 9%
EPEvoqua Water Technologies Pte.: 4 patents #4 of 19Top 25%
EIElectric Power Research Institute: 1 patents #421 of 1,201Top 40%
TOTellabs Operations: 1 patents #141 of 307Top 50%
ZEZenith Electronics: 1 patents #208 of 411Top 55%
ETEvoqua Water Technologies: 1 patents #137 of 216Top 65%
ELEastway Fair Company Limited: 1 patents #29 of 70Top 45%
Needham, MA: #98 of 796 inventorsTop 15%
Massachusetts: #8,211 of 88,656 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
John Chan has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ballard Power Systems. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in October 2016. John Chan ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list John Chan in Needham, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9463988 Electrical purification apparatus having a blocking spacer Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, Lawrence J. Salvo 2016-10-11
9463987 Methods of making a cell stack for an electrical purification apparatus Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, Lawrence J. Salvo 2016-10-11
9413092 Electrical power line connector Gary Charles Sibilant, Jy-An Wang, Fei Ren 2016-08-09
9227858 Electrical purification apparatus Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, Lawrence J. Salvo 2016-01-05
9146826 Method and apparatus for scaling network simulation Hammad Ahmad Khan, Li Zou 2015-09-29
9138689 Method of providing a source of potable water Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, Lawrence J. Salvo 2015-09-22
8956521 Electrical purification apparatus having a blocking spacer Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, Lawrence J. Salvo 2015-02-17
8627560 Methods of making a cell stack for an electrical purification apparatus Li-Shiang Liang, Joseph D. Gifford, Lawrence J. Salvo 2014-01-14
7159497 Light beam alignment system Gerhard Weusthof 2007-01-09
6753106 Method and apparatus for distributing water in an array of fuel cell stacks Clarence Y. Chow, Adrian Corless 2004-06-22 $4,671,000
6322914 Method and apparatus for distributing water in an array of fuel cell stacks Clarence Y. Chow, Adrian Corless 2001-11-27 $48,789,000
6096448 Method and apparatus for operating an electrochemical fuel cell with periodic fuel starvation at the anode David P. Wilkinson, Clarence Y. Chow, Derek E. Allan, deceased, by Patricia Joanne Allan, administrator, Erik Paul Johannes +3 more 2000-08-01 $158,879,000
5935726 Method and apparatus for distributing water to an ion-exchange membrane in a fuel cell Clarence Y. Chow, Adrian Corless 1999-08-10 $20,506,000
5804326 Integrated reactant and coolant fluid flow field layer for an electrochemical fuel cell Clarence Y. Chow, Boguslaw Wozniczka 1998-09-08 $15,475,000
4816825 Method and apparatus for power level control in area networks Gordon Reichard, Jr., Semir Sirazi 1989-03-28 $1,572,000